Adolf Loos

Contains thirty-six original essays by the celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Most deal with questions of design in a wide range of areas, from architecture and furniture, to clothes and jewellery, pottery, plumbing, and printing; others are polemics on craft education and training, and on design in general. Loos, the great cultural reformer and moralist in the history of European architecture and design was always a 'revolutionary against the revolutionaries'. With his assault on Viennese arts and crafts and his conflict with bourgeois morality, he managed to offend the whole country. His 1908 essay 'Ornament and Crime', mocked by an age in love with its accessories, has come to be recognised as a seminal work in combating the aesthetic imperialism of the turn of the century. Today Loos is recognised as one of the great masters of modern architecture.

Selected Essays

Ornament and Crime

Parole nel vuoto

Appearances Can be Revealing

Why a Man Should be Well-dressed

Taste is Timeless

Creating Your Home with Style

Le Corbusier

Johan van de Beek

This revised and updated edition looks anew at the respective merits of two giants of modern architecture. As well as featuring writings by the architects themselves, the book illustrates the evolution of the work of Loos and Le Corbusier, with detailed reference to their domestic projects, ranging from the Strasser House (1919) to the Last House (1932), and from Maison Domino (1915) to Villa Savoye (1932).

Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier

Raumplan Versus Plan Libre

This volume gathers the few essays written by the quirky Austrian architect Loos (d. 1933) as well as student notes of his lectures. The essays respond in part to his best-known essay "Ornament and crime", in which he criticized ornament as a waste of labor. Among other topics the essays celebrate classical architecture, critique certain inefficient habits (including eating goulash at 10 am instead of having a big American-style breakfast), argue that architecture is not one of the arts, and consider the relation of Viennese coffee houses to domestic architecture. The volume is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

On Architecture

Yehuda Safran

Arts Council of Great Britain

Mildred Budny

An Arts Council Exhibition

The Architecture of Adolf Loos

The Vienna Jubilee Exhibition of 1898 provided the occasion for these remarkable essays by the Austrian architect, theorist, and irreverent critic of his own culture, Adolf Loos.

Collected Essays, 1897-1900

Spoken Into the Void

Comment doit-on s'habiller? 

Christopher Long

This insightful book, by one of the leading scholars on Adolf Loos, explores Loos?s last houses, those he designed in the final three years of his life. Presenting numerous plans and photographs of Loos?s late works for the first time, it suggests new ways of understanding his Raumplan concept and how the architect rethought his ideas of space and spatial planning.

Adolf Loos: the Last Houses

Burkhardt Rukschcio

Roland L. Schachel

Adolf Loos, Leben und Werk

Lecturer Allpress

Adolf Loos: Pioneer of Modern Architecture

Leslie Van Duzer

Kent Kleinman

A collection of documentaries that explore the history and spirit of the Olympic Games. 'The Olympic Spirit' traces the history of the Olympic Games from their origin in Ancient Greece to their revival in 1896, under the stewardship of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and subsequent growth. 'Greatest Moments of the Olympics' contains a series of two-minute vignettes that set out to capture the spirit of the Olympic Games. Finally, 'Olympic Sports' takes an in-depth look at the history and evolution of individual Olympic sports including sprinting, middle distance running, swimming, diving and cycling and includes interviews with current Olympic champions Pieter Van Den Hoogenband and Michael Phelps.

A Work of Adolf Loos

Villa Muller

Panayotis Tournikiotis

Viennese architect Adolf Loos was one of the most important pioneers of the European Modern Movement. Born in 1870, he was an early opponent of the decorative trends of Art Nouveau, believing instead that architecture devoid of ornament represented pure and lucid thought. His rationalist design theories were put into practice in the Karntner Bar, Vienna (1907), Steiner House, Vienna (1920), and Villa Muller, Prague (1930). Surprisingly, there is no other monograph on Loos in English currently available. Adolf Loos joins Adalberto Libera and Albert Kahn in Princeton Architectural Press's historical monographs series and presents this great modernist's complete works through numerous illustrations.

Anton Schweighofer

Adolf Loos" Projekte und Entwurfe zum offentlichen Bau sind weitgehend unbekannt. Ein moglicher Grund ist der monumentale Gestus, der viel starker als in den sonstigen Entwurfen Loos" der Tradition verpflichtet scheint und oftmals mit den Vorstellungen des Reaktionaren verwechselt wurde. Adolf Loos entwickelte jedoch eine Sprache fur den offentlichen Bau, die ohne Spektakularitat dem Menschen und der Stadt eine kulturell fundierte architektonische Antwort gab. Seine fur die Wiener provozierenden Losungen wie Hochhauser am Gartenbau, Aussichtsturm fur eine Kirche, ein Museum als Ort des Flanierens etc. blieben Projekte. Neben Geschaftsbauten wie Knize, Manz, Zentralsparkasse Mariahilferstrasse ist das Haus am Michaelerplatz das einzig realisierte grosse Gebaude.

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Adolf Loos - Entwürfe für den öffentlichen Bau

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